Dyan Cannon
| Dyan Cannon | |
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| Born | Samile Diane Friesen January 4, 1937 Tacoma, Washington, USA |
| Occupation | Actress, director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Spouse(s) | Cary Grant (m.1965-1968; divorced; 1 child) Stanley Finberg (m.1985-1991; divorced) |
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer.
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Early life [edit]
Cannon was born in Washington State in the year 1937. Her mother Claire (née Portnoy) was a housewife; Cannon's father, Ben, sold life insurance.[1] Cannon was raised in the Jewish faith of her mother, who had emigrated from Russia; Dyan's father was Baptist.[2] She attended West Seattle High School.
Career [edit]
Cannon made her screen debut in 1960 in The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond; however her small screen debut was in the late 1950s including a guest appearance on Bat Masterson in the 1959 episode entitled "Lady Luck". She made another guest appearance in 1959 on CBS's Wanted: Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen in episode 54 "Vanishing Act" as Nicole McCready. About this time, she also appeared on another CBS western, Johnny Ringo, starring Don Durant, and on Jack Lord's ABC adventure drama, Stoney Burke.
She portrayed Mona Elliott, with fellow guest star Franchot Tone, in the episode "The Man Behind the Man" of the 1964 CBS drama, The Reporter, with Harry Guardino in the title role. She also made appearances on 77 Sunset Strip, the perennial western series Gunsmoke, The Untouchables and the syndicated Two Faces West in the 1960 episode entitled "Sheriff of the Town".
In 1969, Cannon played Alice in the film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. She received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her performance. In 1971, she starred in The Anderson Tapes (with Sean Connery), The Burglars, and Such Good Friends, receiving a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination for the last performance. Two years later, she was co-starred with Burt Reynolds in Shamus and was one of the many stars in The Last of Sheila. In 1974, she gave a critically acclaimed performance in Child Under a Leaf. In addition, she became the first Oscar-nominated actress to be nominated in the Best Short Film, Live Action Category for Number One (1976), a project which Cannon produced, directed, wrote and edited. It was a story about adolescent sexual curiosity. In 1978, Cannon starred in Revenge of the Pink Panther. That same year, she appeared in Heaven Can Wait, for which she received another Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1976, she hosted Saturday Night Live during its first season. She was a guest in the fourth season of The Muppet Show in 1979.[3]
In the 1980s, Cannon, who is also a singer/songwriter, appeared in Honeysuckle Rose (1980) with Willie Nelson, Author! Author! with Al Pacino, Deathtrap (1982) with Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine, Caddyshack II (1988), as well as several made-for-TV movies.
In the 1990s, she appeared on the popular television shows Diagnosis: Murder and The Practice, as well as being a semi-regular on Ally McBeal. She made appearances in films such as That Darn Cat (1997), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), and Out to Sea (1997) with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. In 2005, she appeared in Boynton Beach Club, a movie about aging Floridians who have just lost their spouses.
Personal life [edit]
On July 22, 1965, she married actor Cary Grant, who was 33 years her senior. They had one daughter, Jennifer (born February 26, 1966), who also is an actress. They were divorced on March 21, 1968, but the custody disputes over their daughter went on for years.[citation needed] In 1972, she told an interviewer that she was involved in Primal therapy.[4] Cannon married real estate investor Stanley Fimberg in 1985. They divorced in 1991.
She is an avid fan of the Los Angeles Lakers and has been attending Laker games for over thirty years.
Her brother is jazz bassist David Friesen.
Cannon is now a devout Christian.[2]
Filmography [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "Dyan Cannon". Filmreference.com.
- ^ a b "Dyan Cannon Discusses Her Faith". CNN.com. 2001-04-23. Retrieved 2006-12-13.
- ^ "The Muppet Show - Ending with Dyan Cannon" on YouTube
- ^ "$3 Million Wedding Gift for Jennifer" Joyce Haber Los Angeles Times; Jul 5, 1972; pg. H19
External links [edit]
- Dyan Cannon at the Internet Movie Database
- Dyan Cannon at AllRovi
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- 1937 births
- American Christians
- American film actresses
- American film directors
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- American television actresses
- Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe (film) winners
- Converts to Christianity from Judaism
- Female film directors
- Living people
- People from Seattle, Washington
- People from Tacoma, Washington
- People from Los Angeles, California
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
